Hampshire/Rights of Way
This page documents the attempt to map all rights of way within the Hampshire County Council area using the designation=* tagging classification.
Map
http://hants.openstreetmap.org.uk/
This map shows identified rights of way overlaid on top of the standard Mapnik layer. Updates are performed manually but should rarely be more than two weeks old.
Current progress
| Footpath | Bridleway | Restricted Byway | Byway | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HCC | 3312 | 748 | 226 | 285 | 4571 |
| 2010-02-16 | 557 (16%) | 176 (23%) | 23 (10%) | 24 (8%) | 793 (17%) |
| 2010-03-01 | 634 (19%) | 197 (26%) | 23 (10%) | 23 (8%) | 890 (19%) |
| 2010-04-01 | 727 (21%) | 217 (29%) | 25 (11%) | 37 (12%) | 1006 (22%) |
| 2010-05-01 | 767 (23%) | 224 (29%) | 42 (18%) | 43 (15%) | 1076 (23%) |
| 2010-06-01 | 788 (23%) | 227 (30%) | 44 (19%) | 48 (16%) | 1107 (24%) |
| 2010-07-01 | 819 (24%) | 236 (31%) | 44 (19%) | 52 (18%) | 1151 (25%) |
| 2010-08-01 | 828 (25%) | 247 (33%) | 44 (19%) | 56 (19%) | 1175 (25%) |
| 2010-09-02 | 850 (25%) | 259 (34%) | 48 (21%) | 58 (20%) | 1215 (26%) |
| 2010-10-01 | 869 (26%) | 261 (34%) | 48 (21%) | 60 (21%) | 1238 (27%) |
| 2010-11-01 | 880 (26%) | 263 (35%) | 49 (21%) | 64 (22%) | 1256 (27%) |
| 2010-12-01 | 903 (27%) | 265 (35%) | 64 (28%) | 62 (21%) | 1294 (28%) |
| 2011-01-03 | 910 (27%) | 267 (35%) | 64 (28%) | 66 (23%) | 1307 (28%) |
| 2011-02-01 | 915 (27%) | 267 (35%) | 64 (28%) | 68 (23%) | 1314 (28%) |
| 2011-03-01 | 980 (29%) | 278 (37%) | 73 (32%) | 68 (23%) | 1399 (30%) |
| 2011-04-01 | 1018 (30%) | 284 (37%) | 79 (34%) | 74 (25%) | 1455 (31%) |
| 2011-05-01 | 1127 (34%) | 302 (40%) | 86 (38%) | 77 (27%) | 1592 (34%) |
| 2011-06-01 | 1171 (35%) | 309 (41%) | 96 (42%) | 80 (28%) | 1656 (36%) |
All figures in km unless otherwise stated.
FAQ
How are the figures calculated?
Osmosis is used to create an extract of Hampshire from the planet.osm file using the boundary data in OSM at 2010-02-21. This is then run through the osm-length-2 tool to calculate the length of each way.
The following tags are used for classification:
- Footpath: designation=public_footpath
- Bridleway: designation=public_bridleway
- Restricted Byway: designation=restricted_byway
- Byway Open to All Traffic: designation=byway, designation=public_byway, designation=byway_open_to_all_traffic
How accurate is it?
Probably not very, there are quite a few things that could throw the figures. The point is to see if we are in roughly the right ballpark.
Why are the OSM figures so low?
The designation=* tag is quite a recent invention and a large number of existing paths still need updating to include this tag.